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« on: 14:24:35, 10-05-2007 » |
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Certain pieces of music are thought of as a bit Naff. I'm thinking here of popular favourites, such as Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Bruch's Violin Concerto, and in particular Handel's Coronation Anthems, which I played last night at home for the first time in ages.
I really enjoyed hearing them again, and thought "What have you messageboarders not played for ages that is perhaps a bit naff, but when you hear it again is actually rather good?"
x Jan x
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« Reply #1 on: 14:32:28, 10-05-2007 » |
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Andrea Chenier - loud, OTT, and miles better than anything Puccini managed. Heard at its best with Corelli in the title role.
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #2 on: 14:36:17, 10-05-2007 » |
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I remember, after several years active avoidance of Beethoven, hearing a recording of Fur Elise and thinking "oooh".
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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #3 on: 14:38:03, 10-05-2007 » |
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Vltava used to be massively overplayed, but I heard it again recently after a long break... and it's a nice piece of music  If only I lived somewhere where Handel's Coronation Anthems were over-performed... or performed at all?
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« Reply #4 on: 14:47:18, 10-05-2007 » |
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Funnily enough, Jan, Handel again: both the Fireworks and the Water Music. Heard them recently for the first time (in full) since I was a teen, I think. Awesome, on period instruments. No idea of the recording, I'm afraid! Boy, he knew about writing for outdoors performance. Set me thinking about that, actually...  |
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« Reply #5 on: 15:23:07, 10-05-2007 » |
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If only I lived somewhere where Handel's Coronation Anthems were over-performed... or performed at all?
I'm glad to hear you say that, Reiner. From some of your posts you had clearly had very painful experiences of amateur performances of Messiah in your teens. I am glad that, possibly as a result of intense sessions with a therapist, you are able to appreciate popular Handel. I suspect that Zadok the Priest is what Market Blandings Choral Society would put on if they can't get the soloists for Messiah. The William Tell overture is fun, despite overexposure (Hi ho, Silver.) |
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« Reply #6 on: 15:31:59, 10-05-2007 » |
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Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite no.1 (OD'd on it as a teen, haven't been able to get back to it since).
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« Reply #7 on: 15:41:34, 10-05-2007 » |
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Boy, he knew about writing for outdoors performance. Set me thinking about that, actually... Excellent!! Falmer's answer to Fatboy Slim. You can count on me being there . Has anyone heard the Berlioz Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale performed in the open air? It's absurdly wonderful. I nearly declared war on England by the end. I'd love to hear that again, perhaps in a double bill. |
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« Reply #8 on: 15:51:20, 10-05-2007 » |
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Has anyone heard the Berlioz Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale performed in the open air? It's absurdly wonderful. I nearly declared war on England by the end. I'd love to hear that again, perhaps in a double bill.
Yes - some years ago, by a local youth band at the Brighton Festival, outside the town hall, on a day when the wind was so strong the conductor had to put a couple of bricks on his score to hold it down, and music stands were falling like ninepins. But it was still magnificent. |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #9 on: 15:55:15, 10-05-2007 » |
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J Strauss "Tales from the Vienna Woods" always gets my vote.
Tommo
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« Reply #10 on: 16:22:28, 10-05-2007 » |
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The Nutcracker for me, and this week I DID hear a suite of music from The Nutcracker. Chinese Dance, Russian Dance, Reed Flutes, Waltz of the Flowers etc etc. I can work out most the instruments being played but I'd love to watch an orchestra playing this. So I'm off to youtube very soon.... John W |
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« Reply #11 on: 17:04:53, 10-05-2007 » |
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Funnily enough, mine was Tchaikovsky too - last movement of the Fifth symphony with the Leningrad Phil under Mravinsky. What playing!
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« Reply #12 on: 22:36:31, 10-05-2007 » |
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Always used to think Elgar 1st Symphony was old fashioned with the opening theme kinda signalling the end of empire....recently acquired new recording and think its great even though slightly imperial - think Elgar gets bad press sometimes....
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« Reply #13 on: 23:33:50, 10-05-2007 » |
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Almost anything by Tchaik. gets my vote - Nutcracker is HUGELY inventive orchestrally (totally with you there, John) and Sleeping Beauty had me gripped in the sunset days of R3... (and the dawn of this very MB). And those warhorses, Marche Slave, Capriccio Italien, even 1812 - he really knew how to pile on the excitement!
Just goes to show - there's nothing worse than being unpopular - except being OVERpopular...
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« Reply #14 on: 07:53:24, 11-05-2007 » |
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Almost anything by Tchaik. gets my vote - Nutcracker is HUGELY inventive orchestrally (totally with you there, John) and Sleeping Beauty had me gripped in the sunset days of R3... (and the dawn of this very MB). And those warhorses, Marche Slave, Capriccio Italien, even 1812 - he really knew how to pile on the excitement!
Just goes to show - there's nothing worse than being unpopular - except being OVERpopular...
Yeah; it's funny how, even if you're really, really careful, it's possible to accumulate ten, twenty recordings of that piano concert without realizing it. I remember Sorabji saying, in one of his rants about the (then) current state of music in Britain, how it was not in any way unusual for there to be several performances of that concerto being held on any given night. |
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